Xiao Yanlong's latest work: Education is a circle.

If you walk on a circular runway, one day you will find that all this is a circle, and the starting point and the ending point are in the same position. At that time, you will be more relaxed.

Children are the flowers of the motherland and the hope of the people in the future, so when a child comes into this world, his expectations are infinite. The word "child" seems to be born as a continuation of the hopes of parents and the older generation.

Naturally, at school age, "children" get their due role-"students". Perhaps in the true sense, this strange circle of life is the starting point from this time.

In Yuantai City, teaching has always been a topic of great concern and controversy. Looking at the success of the national space industry again and again, the students in Yuantaicheng are not as proud and happy as people should be. A cold expression that has nothing to do with yourself has become the best-selling Facebook here, because here, any expression that has nothing to do with learning is defined as a burden. No one dares to resist, this is a definition, a definition of "strange circle", just like the lodging "crop circle", which is full of fantasy to outsiders, but people here are used to it. Accurately speaking, the teaching environment in Thai City is like a pot of rice porridge. The longer it takes, the more agarwood there will be. The real agarwood is when the rice grains are used to ups and downs in this pot of rice porridge. This is an experience! The uncooked rice will be picked out and thrown away as dross sooner or later.

The word "habit" is sometimes more than a noun, it really contains too many meanings. When we were young, we were often cynical and didn't like dirty phenomena. In short, we are angry and just, but what we often get is a sentence from our parents: "Just wait until you get used to it." This is a real habit of adapting to the environment, or a habit of being forced to suppress emotions and become numb. Opinions vary.

On a blind date in Yuantaicheng, if one of the men and women is teaching in a school, this is definitely a well-known hard condition, and it is enough to make countless people envy and surprise.

Why people in Yuan and Taiwan Province love teachers so much is not because they have the noble character of "soul engineers", but only because of the "strange circle" phenomenon here.

Life in Thai City is always super-stressful, fast-paced, stuck in traffic, working overtime and being taught, all of which are not unusual. Education, in particular, is more difficult than going to heaven. Now Thai City is in the hot weather in July, especially at noon, and the temperature is unceremoniously soaring to nearly 40 degrees. Coupled with the traffic jam during the noon rush hour, the exhaust gas with heat energy emitted by cars has already set the city on fire. Cicada in the tree can't stand making disturbing noises. All people are like rice grains in a rice cooker, quietly waiting for the moment of boiling and expansion. Haunters, who is often broadcast on TV, is probably the result of challenging the limits for such a long time. Thai people's greatest skill is to be calm and indifferent wherever possible.

At this time, in addition to the city's traffic arteries, there is also a very lively place, that is, the entrance of the kindergarten, surrounded by a nominal team on the inner and outer floors. People who come here for the first time will be puzzled by this phenomenon. Obviously it is summer vacation, why are there so many parents crowded at the kindergarten gate, and it is still the hottest time of the day?

But what can parents do? The number of kindergartens in Yuantai City is pitifully small. Coupled with some external pressure, the number of places that really fall into enrollment is even less pitiful. For example, a kindergarten can receive 100 students at most. However, which leader in the education department has no relatives, six relatives, and kindergartens dare not challenge the authority of the leaders. It can only leave some specific places to recruit designated students, so it can finally fall into the enrollment quota. Parents also have opinions on this phenomenon, and there is nothing they can do. Indeed, what about being the parents of ordinary people? Maybe a well-off family can spend money to find a relationship to send their children in. What about ordinary people? In a word: "People with small hats are low and nobody cares."

Kindergarten starts in September every year. Poor inheritance, in order to provide a good environment for children's teaching growth, she had to work hard on herself. She squeezed out any spare time to queue up at the kindergarten and tried every means to win places for her children. You see, as soon as she gets off work every day, the queue is very crowded. Some people carry benches, some bring lunch boxes and some carry recliners. Look at this posture, there is really a feeling of waiting for the end.

"Squeeze" is a word full of wisdom and philosophy. Mr. Lu Xun once said: "Time is like water in a sponge. Squeeze, there will always be. " This sentence embodies the concept of "crowding" to the extreme. In Thai City, oppression is not only a philosophy, but also an attitude towards life. If you want to stay ahead of others and not fall behind, you have to "squeeze" hard. The simplest example is that you have to squeeze the bus, and you have to squeeze before the bus arrives at the station. It seems that you can't get on the bus without crowding. When you get off the bus, you should squeeze through the crowd in the middle of the car early and jump to the front of the door from the gap, as if you wouldn't get off unless you squeezed the driver.

When waiting in line, many parents can't take care of their children and let their grandparents queue up. In the sunshine, the old couple each took a cattail leaf fan and a cup and sat in a chair and drank tea all afternoon. As for the number of places in the queue, it has become a job they do by the way after relaxing. Before the evening arrived, someone went home to eat and rest instead of the old couple, preparing for the midnight oil.

In this way, the lucky children were squeezed into the kindergarten by their parents. Those parents who can't squeeze in can only make full preparations and squeeze again next year.

Education is so crowded. After safely passing through small classes, middle classes, large classes and preschool classes, I began to worry about my children's primary school choice. The number of primary schools and secondary schools in Yuantai City is still sufficient, so parents don't need to queue up to go to places like kindergartens, but the biggest problem is that the classification between schools in Yuantai is too clear. Often in schools with good reputation, people cut their hair and try their best to get in touch with the teachers in the school. In short, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, parents should try their best to move out of their own seven aunts and eight aunts and climb relatives with teachers around the eighteen bends. This is an important reason why Thai city people are full of affection for the profession of teachers, and it is convenient to handle affairs. If you meet a less famous school, parents will avoid it. Those slightly better schools can accommodate nearly 80 people in a class, and 20 people in weaker schools can be regarded as burning incense.

Society is realistic, and how many people entrust others to do things must be indicated. From the formalities to the final admission, at least seven or eight official seals are required. You stamp everywhere, and the person in charge will always give you a lot of reasons to prevaricate and block you. Height and looks may even be an excellent excuse for them, and then they will pretend to find something to open the drawer and rummage through it. If you are a "sensible" person, you should know that it is time to put the red envelope in the drawer. As long as the red envelope is stuffed, the person in charge will not look for anything immediately, and all your conditions will be up to standard immediately, red stamp. If you don't understand the "rules" at all and kindly help you find them together, then you are ready to go through the formalities to open 18 certificates. If you go too far, the person in charge will coldly throw out a sentence: "I wish you wouldn't open a child's unmarried certificate." Thai is a strange circle, no matter how you go, you will eventually return to the same starting point, so if you want to make a complete proof, you will come to the person in charge who introduced you out sooner or later after going around.

In a school, the grades between classes are still different. There are top classes and there are parallel classes. Top classes must be better equipped with corresponding teachers than ordinary classes. This right belongs to the head teacher. You must please the teacher. The fixed capacity of a top class has already been stuffed into some designated assistants, and the remaining places have become the weights in the hands of teachers. This admission ceremony is a bit like a quota auction.

After entering the class, the ranking of seats is different. The students sitting in the front row are close to the teacher, so they can hear clearly in class, and the teacher can keep abreast of the children's learning dynamics and knowledge mastery. For those children sitting in the back, the mountain is higher than the emperor, and the teacher has no time to care whether they master it or not. If a classmate questions and asks to arrange seats according to height, the teacher will definitely say to arrange seats according to grades, so as to create better ones for those children who love learning. Of course it makes sense! Students sitting in the front row can be noticed by the teacher at the first time and given targeted counseling. Of course, their grades are better, so that the students in the front row can obviously improve their grades, and they can sit in the front row after improvement. This is a microcirculation, this is a strange circle!

The "front row" seems to be the difference in the grades of students in a class. In Yuantai Experimental Middle School, it is impossible to sit in the front row of the top class without this chicken feather as the head teacher. Of course, there is also a special situation, that is, those blood-related families in the class regard their parents as some leaders of the education department, and the teachers dare not tell them what to do. Teacher Zhong Qin, the head teacher, teaches mathematics. If her name is mentioned, no one in the education circle in the city knows, and no one dares to know. She is an extremely clever person, and she seems to believe in her educational experience accumulated over the years. Before each lecture, she always flips through the textbook, glancing at the contents above, and probably browsing what this chapter is about. As for the detailed knowledge points, she always studies them slowly during lectures. Experience is indeed a person's greatest advantage, which can be said to be the greatest advantage of teachers and doctors. Lecturing is a very controllable job, and the relationship with time depends on how the lecturer controls it. This Zhong Qin teacher deliberately unifies the rhythm of lecture speed and time every time. If there is a situation that the class has been finished because of insufficient preparation, but there is still a lot of time, she will start rambling with a very nonstandard Mandarin, extending from the learning situation of individual classmates to her uncle and grandmother. She's really smart. After a sensational speech, the bell seemed to ring out of rhythm, so a class passed.

Teacher Zhong Qin has been engaged in the education industry for about 12 years. In her own words, she has seen more salt than the students have eaten. No wonder she can talk without preparing lessons. Even in 12, you should recite the same sentence backwards. Compared with her, the Chinese teacher at the desk next to the office is a bit clumsy, and always comes in and out of the classroom with a thick stack of teaching plans every day.

When there is no class, Zhong Qin's chirping voice can be heard in the office. She knows everything, including astronomy and geography. Her trademark loud voice doesn't mean a little restraint, and she also makes the volume of abnormal human conversation at will. You must be a good lecturer with such a loud voice. Strangely, she has never heard such a loud voice in class. She explained that her throat was inflamed and she couldn't speak loudly, so she had to rely on the loudspeaker to assist her in class. Even so, the spread of sound is quite limited.

At the beginning, there was little difference in students' grades in the class, because after all, their acceptance ability was almost the same, and they were all taught by the same teacher, so the students' grades in each exam were basically the same. However, with the deepening of the learning content, recently, many students have been unable to understand and learn, and the gap in test scores is getting bigger and bigger. A small number of people, like dark horses, rushed out of the class's average acceptance ability, but surpassed ordinary people. Parents began to worry, why is there such a big difference in academic performance under the same learning conditions? Especially in mathematics, the gap is staggering.

At the parent-teacher conference, Ms. Zhong Qin began to speak her half Mandarin and half Yuan Taiwanese again. Different from previous classes, she didn't bring a megaphone today, but it was her trademark loud voice and capable and rich conversation that made all parents trust the teacher very much, thinking that her poor grades were entirely the cause of her children's inattention in class. Finally, she specially named several students and asked their parents to stay in the office to find her after the meeting.

Parent-teacher conferences are always the same scene. Several students gathered downstairs to discuss what was said above. From time to time, spies are sent to report things they overheard with various expressions. They are flustered, helpless, afraid and happy. A person's face can show such rich expressions at the same time.

The parents of the named students met and went to Zhong Qin's office. After the same unconstrained style, she began to cut to the chase: "These students have a good foundation, but there are still some problems in their learning methods. I hope I can squeeze out some time to study at my place this weekend ... "In short, I want you to come to my house on Saturday and Sunday to make up lessons in order to improve your grades.

The tone of voice is euphemistic, but who dares to disobey as a parent? If she doesn't study, she will isolate her children with the usual "Zhong Qin reaction". Once, a parent objected to her make-up lessons, and then she smiled and said to the student, "It seems that you have learned everything you need to learn. Go to the back and help the students behind. " Parents panicked for a while, and then they were busy enrolling her in a cram school. The next day, the student was transferred back to his original post. For parents, teachers are high-voltage lines that they dare not touch easily. It is a magic weapon for teachers to be invincible, because it has a vast territory and the biggest room for children to grow up.

It's a cram school In fact, it gives full play to the wisdom philosophy of Yuan people and Taiwan Province people. A closed cabin of less than 20 square meters is filled with nearly 40 students. I can't imagine how she managed to squeeze in. A four-hour cram school in the afternoon, students have no free time at all. No, to be precise, there should be no space. It is difficult to fatten Zhong Qin's body in such a simple teaching environment, so as to give the teacher enough nutrition. Students can only squeeze two tables in four hours. Compared with active learning, this class is more like completing a political task, and no one is allowed to have any dissatisfaction. In a sense, students are extremely dedicated extras.

Make-up lessons can't be said to be ineffective, because after a period of study, these students finally know what is the main reason for their academic performance, because many key knowledge points can only be heard in Zhong Qin's own classroom, and they are only vague in the big classroom of the school, passing quickly without saying a word, and then they start talking nonsense. Chatting and talking in the 45-minute class is the main job, and preaching and teaching is a gift.

Every traditional festival in China, besides students, there is another group that is the happiest, not only because they can have a holiday, but because it is an unspoken rule that I don't know when it began to form. Parents should find the best time to thank the teacher for his hard work. The so-called best time is Tomb-Sweeping Day, a traditional festival of all non-statutory holidays in China. In Yuantaicheng, I am afraid that only the "hard work" of the profession of teachers has the right to be respected. On holidays, Mr. Zhong Qin always greets everyone who comes to thank his parents and students with a wrinkled face. Smiling heartily, he took solatium from his parents without hesitation, said a few words about the children, and was ready to see Fujian. Then, like a child who received a gift at a birthday party, he couldn't wait to open the gift bags one by one to see if there was anything special in them.

The phrase "a good man is safe all his life" has been proved to be true after numerous verifications. Due to overwork, Ms. Zhong Qin's voice is getting worse and worse. At first, she just asked some classmates with good academic performance to explain the exercises instead of her. She was by her side, but later, she had to have an operation. At this time, she can no longer pretend to be a capable and responsible good teacher in front of her parents with her trademark loud voice as usual. She had to ask for leave to go to the hospital. The day before she left, she was still standing on the podium in high spirits, making a small sound with the help of a megaphone. She explained the reason why she couldn't continue her class, and then made arrangements for her temporary absence from school. She also emphasized which hospital to go to for surgery and made the ward number clear. She deliberately repeated this thing to test the students' EQ geometry. She doesn't want her students to have high IQ and average EQ. Some students with strong understanding ability will immediately understand the teacher's meaning and just wait for a time to visit the teacher with their parents. Some students with low emotional intelligence think that sending a caring message to the teacher will be all right, while some students with negative emotional intelligence are indifferent at all. In short, everyone in this class has their own voice-over.

There is no trouble in making up lessons this Saturday. The students are as happy as free canaries. For them, they don't want to have too much time to relax, just want to give them back the time to make up lessons. From this perspective, making up lessons is not something that students are willing to accept, but what can they do? Parents want their children to succeed, and teachers are eager to see it. Under this high-pressure policy of cooperation with others, students can only give in easily.

The more dissatisfied students are, the worse their academic performance will be, and the worse their performance will be, the more they will have to make up lessons. What's more, they have to make up four classes on Sunday alone, which is the conclusion that no one can jump out of the strange circle.

This weekend, I didn't have the trouble of cramming, just added the task of visiting teachers. For parents and students, this is just a task, and there is no humanistic care in it. I don't know when, some people began to be like monkeys in the zoo, quietly placed in a special scene, waiting for others to pay the admission fee to watch, and occasionally handing over some gifts and food. The visited person had to be released like a well-trained animal.

Some quite sophisticated people come to the bedside with their parents and supplements early in the morning, and finish the task like a job through insincere gossip. Other patients in the same ward can't help feeling envious when they see that Zhong Qin's bedside is filled with all kinds of supplements, and this kind of envy is the best feed for Zhong Qin to satisfy his vanity. Some parents and students can only put this task aside for a while. They think this Zhong Qin teacher should not remember who hasn't come to see her, so she plans to fish in troubled waters, but who would have expected that Zhong Qin had prepared the roster of the whole class before coming to the hospital, and then checked the list one by one. After learning this situation, these parents panicked and handed in their homework in time before the end of hospital visiting hours, which is something to be done anyway.

I don't know if it is because Zhong Qin's laryngitis is not serious, and the recovery time after operation is very short. Half a month later, he began his trademark loud speech and the usual makeup class on Saturday and Sunday, perhaps because Jiang Lang did her best, or because she paid special attention to protection. Since then, he has made great changes in the way of making up lessons. He tried not to scream loudly, but sent a paper in each class, and she drank water to relax. When the students have questions that they can't understand, they begin to concentrate on answering questions. As a matter of fact, students can finish these exercises independently at home, but this Zhong Qin teacher has to let her children concentrate on writing in a bad environment. In her words, this is called the atmosphere, and of course she is "angry" for spending money. After all, exercise time is limited, and she has to hold back the pain in her heart. The original four-hour class was changed to three hours.

Accustomed to this kind of work and rest without rest time, students will not complain any more. Just like a truth, habit is not just a noun, it is also an unconscious numbness. Students are numb, numb to enthusiasm and numb to interest. Basically, Mr. Zhong Qin's students are all machines used to cope with exams. Her exam-oriented education has long banned thinking. Too much innovation will only bring serious provocation to the inherent teaching mode, which is absolutely not allowed.

Or improvise, understate. In a word, Zhong Qin's class is always so obscure, but shouldn't the essence of mathematics be profound? In a blink of an eye, I reached the critical stage of junior high school promotion, which was the first important turning point on the way for students to study.

Happiness and trouble, two simple emotions intertwined, warp and weft intertwined, woven into a seamless network. Every student clearly knows that this is a net that can even limit the freedom of breathing, and he passively enters this net step by step. The saddest thing is that he has to pretend to enjoy himself and stride forward in the process. But who can stop it? This is the truest portrayal of students' mentality before the middle school entrance examination. Of course, walking has also become a boon for students, especially for those who are prone to fail in the examination room. It is undoubtedly like a lifeline. If you catch it, you can avoid being washed away in the big waves of the senior high school entrance examination. If you can't catch it, you can only pray in front of the big waves not to be knocked over.

And this walking index has become the last chip in the hands of teachers. Of course, Mr Zhong Qin is no exception. Several children in the class with similar learning and competitive strength are ready for the last fight and try their best to win the number of walks. One thing stands out, whether it is morality, study or interpersonal communication, but one thing is that the child's family is very poor and unable to satisfy the emptiness of selfish desires. The child's mother has talked about this with Zhong Qin and the school many times. What a pity for the loving mother in the world. No mother wants to see her original excellent child admitted to an unsatisfactory teaching environment because of abnormal performance. This mother knows the hidden rules very well. Once she came to the teacher's office with a piece of paper wrapped in a newspaper and found the teacher in class. She doesn't want her children to be embarrassed when they see it. Wu nai can only hide in an empty water room for 45 minutes. What a tough 45 minutes. Mother's clothes are simple, and the gray nylon short sleeves have been washed a little white. Finally, when the class was over, my mother went up to chat with Teacher Zhong Qin. When no one was around, my mother opened the paper bag trembling and handed it to her. There are many coins with denominations of 50 yuan and 10 yuan. When my mother sent the money to Teacher Zhong Qin, it was obvious that there was a ray of hope in her loving mother's eyes, but Teacher Zhong Qin didn't mean to refuse. She quickly turned around and stuffed the paper into the backpack behind her, readily promised, and then laughed heartily. Mother saw hope and ran home quickly.

Finally, the results of the number of places to go came out. Without this child, my mother suddenly became blindsided and went to see her teacher, Zhong Qin. The teacher didn't shy away from this question, but put a lot of practical difficulties. In a word, what comes out of her mouth is always more difficult than the way, which eventually leads to the failure of this matter. The mother is not good at arguing about anything, so she has to regard herself as a mute. Later, when chatting, I realized that the original number of trips was given to a student who was far less than this child. On one condition only, the student is a "rich" child. And this child is by no means the first person to encounter this situation.

Teacher Zhong Qin is such a clever person.

Luckily, Mr. Zhong Qin's husband came to pick him up from work that night. The child is as smart as Zhong, and responds to his parents and colleagues like a smart card. When a parent asked him his wish to grow up in the future, the child said that he wanted to be a teacher in the future. No wonder her mother is a teacher, and it is not surprising that she is exposed to such an ideal. When some good parents ask why,

Such childish words are reckless and sting. Teacher Zhong Qin is also a soft and swollen rice in this pot of rice porridge.

No one dares to break through this strange circle. Everyone plays their part in this strange circle. On the stage of Yuantaicheng, all actors have to do is try their best to portray their roles. As for how to cooperate with people and how to present the scene perfectly, there is no need to consider at all. This is a solo dance with a large audience, a dance called circle. ...